"pies" news and stories

Chefs in some smaller upscale bistros double as waiters, creating an intimate, dinner party-like ambiance. Only the host never sits down to eat.

Animal rights activists are using hidden cameras to document slaughterhouse abuses, like sick cows being dragged with forklifts. Still hungry for that sloppy Joe?

An ode to pasties and other savory portable pies. Yum.

Frank Bruni continues his coast-to-coast tour of his favorite new restaurants: Fearing's in Dallas, Michael's Genuine Food & Drink in Miami, and Cochon in New Orleans.

The Minimalist does chicken with tomatillos for St. Paddy's day.

Restaurateurs are growing annoyed with online table reservation scalping.

Pickle ice pops? If you say so.

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If I had my way, every month would be pie month. I like all kinds of pies, from apple to pumpkin to Boston Cream. My apple pie has to be ice cold though. To me, hot apple pie is...gah.

February is Great American Pie Month, and for some reason I've always thought that the pie was an American creation in general. I doubt that's true, but we make some great pies. In the apple category, there's Mile High Apple Pie, Maple Apple Cream Pie, and Cranberry-Almond Apple Pie.

After the jump is a recipe for Key Lime Pie, from The Cook's Kitchen, which also has a little factoid on who liked pie so much he practically lived on it while travel ling across the country.

Looking over the list of December food holidays and I see it's filled with many foods that you'd actually associate with December and the holidays, and that's a good thing. I hate it when you have a food holiday in a month where it just seems out of place. Like June being National Turkey Lovers Month.

Today is National Pie Day. Here are several recipes for Apple Pie, Blueberry, Pumpkin, and Boston Creme.

Or maybe you can be adventurous and try the Pumpkin Pie in another form ... liquid!

Update: a reader points out that we January 23 is National Pie Day, though I've also found a few sources that say it's today. Oh well, you can't have too many days of pie!

I haven't had a chance to really get into Pushing Daisies, one of the new shows that premiered this season, because I have class on Wednesday nights when it airs (I know I could watch it online, but that seems like far too much commitment to television viewing for me). I watched it once and the thing that captured my attention the most was all the amazing pies that the main character creates in his bakery/cafe, The Pie Hole. While I was watching, I started to wonder if there was a place where you could find recipes for the those pies.

That thought dropped away from my mind until a couple of days ago, when I got an email From Bake Space, saying that they had created a special page, devoted to recipes from the Pie Hole. I think this one, for Mixed Tomato Cobbler with Gruyere Crust sounds pretty amazing (although it might be one to save for summer when tomatoes are amazing).

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I've never given much thought as to whether South Africans celebrate Thanksgiving. However, when I read that a team of bakers created what they're calling the the world's largest pumpkin pie last weekend, I'm beginning to think folks in Pretoria might just have their own version Thanksgiving.

The 1.15 ton treat took two days to make and bake and measured some 3 feet deep. It's worth noting that the pie's other dimensions were 28 feet long and 7 feet wide. While I'm all for the South Africans trying to break a record set by a group of U.S. farmers two years ago (pictured), someone needs to tell the South Africans that pies are round. If the dimensions I read are not a typo, the mammoth pumpkin pastry qualifies as a loaf with a crust, but not a pie. A ton of the orange gourd was used to make the "pie." As of press time, there's been no reports of how many pounds of Cool Whip were used to top the purported pie.

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